Dear Designers
Do not forget.
You're allowed to make something that doesn't lean on the same three UI component libraries everybody else uses.
You're allowed to use a typeface that isn't SF Pro.
You're allowed to make apps look and work differently, they don't all have to look like a Finder re-skin or a stock MacOS app.
You're allowed to question every single assumption and convention you have absorbed without noticing you absorbed it.
You're allowed to leave a fingerprint.
Do not forget,
you are a designer 🖤
My Three.js + TSL shader course — Fragments — is open for registration until the end of May!
It's the perfect way to learn the techniques that power some of the most incredible shaders out there, and how to build them in code.
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A deep dive into a topic I wanted to explore for a long time: how to render a realistic sky and atmosphere
I explore everything from simulating the interaction of light with air, to handling sunsets, all in real-time, from ground to space
https://t.co/lov84x0Ods
2Advanced x Rob Ford (FWA): Field Station 02. 'The Kesey Signal' - what if the truth about humanity's past was hidden in plain sight, embedded in the source code of archived Flash websites? A love letter to 1999. https://t.co/PamQfK4yKk
Grok, summarize this article.
Claude, give me the book in five bullets.
YouTube, 5x speed on the podcast.
ChatGPT, TL;DR my friend's text.
Spotify, skip to the chorus.
Netflix, just give me the highlights.
I can't wait to die faster.
don’t understand why everyone is so obsessed with building or designing as quickly as possible.
wasn’t the reason you got into the industry b/c you enjoyed the process of building and designing?
Get beautiful text animations.
We built a hand-crafted collection of text animations and wrapped them as a SKILL for your AI agent. Use it with Remotion, Motion, GSAP, WAAPI, or any animation library.
It comes with clear animation specs - pacing, curves, transitions - so your output looks great from the first prompt.
Install it with:
npx skills add pixel-point/animate-text --skill animate-text
Use it
/animate-text apply soft-blur-in to hero section text
Design X has become 80% tool discourse and 20% actual design. The ratio should worry you.
Because the tools aren’t the problem. They’ve never been the problem.
Give the same setup to ten people and you’ll get ten completely different levels of taste, craft, and thinking. That’s the gap.
And yet, every week it’s “this tool killed design” or “designers are cooked”.
Most of the people saying that can barely build anything worth looking at, let alone make it useable, or connecting. No depth. No reps. No taste. Just noise.
It’s clout chasing dressed up as insight. A problem that isn’t real, sold like it is. Strange time.
This design studio poured wine on surfaces to capture texture for a WebGL experience.
@basementstudio is behind some of the most interesting experiences on the web.
35 people in Argentina. Nothing ships until the whole studio signs off.
Their R&D lab spun off an open-source framework, a headless CMS, and a contribution to Vercel's Geist font.
New State of Play episode with @ragojose and @falanfantana.
@thenoumenon so sick of these “ai replaces x” takes. real skills, experience, and knowledge will continue to be the differentiator between quality, polished work and ai slop. those using ai as a tool or assistant will succeed more than those using it to do their entire jobs for them.